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  • Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install

    From phako@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 8 09:55:10 2025
    candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
    writes:

    is there any other choice for ssh?

    dropbear : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbear_(software)

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to phako on Sun Jun 8 09:17:52 2025
    On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:55:10 +0200, phako wrote:

    candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
    writes:

    is there any other choice for ssh?

    dropbear : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbear_(software)

    I have come across one or two situations where the Dropbear client would connect to an SSH server where OpenSSH (by default) would not. The
    difference was that Dropbear was more willing to tolerate old, insecure encryption algorithms which OpenSSH rejected.

    Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing ...

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  • From Jason H@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Jun 8 09:53:05 2025
    On 08/06/2025 10:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:55:10 +0200, phako wrote:

    candycanearter07 <[email protected]>
    writes:

    is there any other choice for ssh?

    dropbear : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbear_(software)

    I have come across one or two situations where the Dropbear client would >connect to an SSH server where OpenSSH (by default) would not. The
    difference was that Dropbear was more willing to tolerate old, insecure >encryption algorithms which OpenSSH rejected.

    Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing ...

    You can get OpenSSH to accept an older algorithm (either at the command line
    or in your ~.ssh/config.


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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Jason H on Sun Jun 8 21:43:34 2025
    On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 09:53:05 -0000 (UTC), Jason H wrote:

    On 08/06/2025 10:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    I have come across one or two situations where the Dropbear client
    would connect to an SSH server where OpenSSH (by default) would
    not. The difference was that Dropbear was more willing to tolerate
    old, insecure encryption algorithms which OpenSSH rejected.

    Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing ...

    You can get OpenSSH to accept an older algorithm (either at the command
    line or in your ~.ssh/config.

    I know, I have done that. I seem to recall a situation where even that
    didn’t help ...

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